No prizes for guessing who will finish first?

In six weeks I will be doing the Silverstone Half Marathon for AbleChildAfrica with Anne Wafula-Strike a British Paraylmpian who grew up in Kenya and one of the world’s leading wheelchair sprinters. No prizes for guessing who will finish first! Yesterday I was on the East Africa FM Breakfast show talking with Jimmy Kabwe about why I want to do things differently this year. I told him that I want to show people just how able disabled young people are and to do that this year I want to do some extra-ordinary things.

I’m starting with the Silverstone Half Marathon and this afternoon I started training along the banks of Lake Victoria where I have come to visit a school which we are supporting so that it is inclusive – so that disabled children can learn alongside just about anyone else. My dream is that in a few years time this isolated example in Bukoba is no longer an isolated example but that schools across Africa provide education which is inclusive and gives disabled children a good start in life alongside their peers. Later this year we will be arranging a Kilimajaro climb to raise funds and show the world that disability is not inability!